UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying Group 5

The UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying Group 5 was one of the seven groups to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 1988 finals tournament. Group 5 consisted of five teams: Netherlands, Greece, Hungary, Poland, and Cyprus, where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format, with the top team qualifying for the final tournament. The Netherlands won the group and qualified for the finals, finishing 5 points clear of Greece.

Standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Netherlands 8 6 2 0 15 1 +14 14 Qualify for final tournament — 1–1 2–0 0–0 4–0[lower-alpha 1]
2  Greece 8 4 1 3 12 13 −1 9 0–3 — 2–1 1–0 3–1
3  Hungary 8 4 0 4 13 11 +2 8 0–1 3–0 — 5–3 1–0
4  Poland 8 3 2 3 9 11 −2 8 0–2 2–1 3–2 — 0–0
5  Cyprus 8 0 1 7 3 16 −13 1 0–2 2–4 0–1 0–1 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
Notes:
  1. The Netherlands v Cyprus match originally finished as an 8–0 win for the Netherlands, but the match was marred by crowd violence. Therefore the result was annulled and the match was ordered to be replayed behind closed doors.

Matches
Poland 2–1 Greece
Dziekanowski  4', 39' (Details) Anastopoulos  12'
Attendance: 32,500
Hungary 0–1 Netherlands
(Details) Van Basten  67'
Attendance: 18,000
Greece 2–1 Hungary
Mitropoulos  38'
Anastopoulos  65'		 (Details) Boda  73'
Attendance: 16,666
Referee: Velodi Miminoshvili (Soviet Union)
Netherlands 0–0 Poland
(Details)
Attendance: 52,750
Cyprus 2–4 Greece
Christofi  28'
Savvidis  41'		 (Details) Antoniou  14'
L. Papaioannou  48'
Batsinilas  73'
Anastopoulos  85'
Attendance: 9,583
Referee: Velitchko Tzontchev (Bulgaria)
Cyprus 0–2 Netherlands
(Details) Gullit  19'
Bosman  72'
Attendance: 7,483
Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)
Greece 3–1 Cyprus
Anastopoulos  54', 66'
Bonovas  63'		 (Details) Savva  60'
Attendance: 41,076
Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)
Cyprus 0–1 Hungary
(Details) Boda  49'
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Dragiša Komadinić (Yugoslavia)
Netherlands 1–1 Greece
Van Basten  56' (Details) Saravakos  5'
Attendance: 43,841
Referee: Carlo Longhi (Italy)
Poland 0–0 Cyprus
(Details)
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Simo Ruokonen (Finland)
Greece 1–0 Poland
Saravakos  57' (Details)
Attendance: 68,324
Netherlands 2–0 Hungary
Gullit  37'
Mühren  40'		 (Details)
Attendance: 53,035
Hungary 5–3 Poland
Vincze  38'
Détári  62' (pen.),  75'
Péter  65'
Preszeller  88'		 (Details) Marciniak  26'
Smolarek  58'
Wójcicki  80'
Attendance: 8,000
Poland 3–2 Hungary
Dziekanowski  6'
Tarasiewicz  58'
Leśniak  62'		 (Details) Bognár  10'
Mészáros  64'
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Ihsan Türe (Turkey)
Poland 0–2 Netherlands
(Details) Gullit  30', 38'
Attendance: 21,500
Hungary 3–0 Greece
Détári  4'
Bognár  12'
Mészáros  15'		 (Details)
Attendance: 8,000
Netherlands Annulled[note 1] Cyprus
 Report
Attendance: 49,670
Referee: Roger Philippi (Luxembourg)
Cyprus 0–1 Poland
(Details) Leśniak  74'
Attendance: 2,497
Referee: Dimitar Charlatchki (Bulgaria)
Hungary 1–0 Cyprus
Kiprich  88' (Details)
Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Ștefan Dan Petrescu (Romania)
Netherlands 4–0 Cyprus
Bosman  34', 43', 66'
Koeman  63'		 (Details)
Attendance: 300
Referee: Ivan Gregr (Czechoslovakia)
Greece 0–3 Netherlands
(Details) Koeman  18'
Gillhaus  76', 81'
Attendance: 3,432

Goalscorers

There were 60 goals scored in 21 matches, for an average of 2.86 goals per match.[note 2]

9 goals

5 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Notes
  1. The Netherlands v Cyprus match originally finished as an 8–0 win for the Netherlands, but the match was marred by crowd violence after Cyprus goalkeeper Andreas Charitou was hit by a firework. Charitou was injured and had to be replaced, and the Cyprus players left the field in protest and refused to play. Eventually after discussion between referee Roger Philippi, UEFA observer Alfred Delcourt and team officials, the Cyprus players agreed in a written statement to finish the match, though under protest. The result was later annulled by UEFA and the match was ordered to be replayed behind closed doors, which took place on 9 December 1987.[1]
  2. The matches/goals tally takes into account fixtures that were subsequently annulled.

References
  1. Datema, Dave; Lagas, Marijke (28 October 2017). "30 jaar na het bomincident: plots was het EK '88 zo ver weg" [30 years after the bomb incident: suddenly the European Championship '88 was so far away]. rijnmond.nl (in Dutch). RTV Rijnmond. Archived from the original on 21 January 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
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